News / 24 Jun 2015

Wallgate is proud to be part of Better Bedroom 2

The aim of the Better Bedroom Initiative is to raise awareness of good mental health design, stimulating debate and innovation and moving design and the service user environment to the next level.

The aim of the Better Bedroom Initiative is to raise awareness of good mental health design, stimulating debate and innovation and moving design and the service user environment to the next level. Commissioned by the DIMHN and project managed by Oxford Architect’s Matthew Balaam Wallgate’s 'normal looking' anti-ligature sanitaryware was chosen as part of a “Dragon’s Den” approach to specifying products.

Following the launch, Jenny Gill, Chairman of the Design in Mental Health Network thanked everyone for their efforts in planning and preparing the room “I would like to add another thanks, that of service users now and in the future, we are making a difference, slowly and surely to the experience and speeding recovery, long may we continue to do so”.

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The new Wallgate approved CPD module ‘Innovative Washroom Solutions’ discusses the key elements and criteria that architects and specifiers need to consider when designing all aspects of a school washroom.

The two office washroom facilities at Wiltshire-based felt manufacturer and supplier, Naish Felts required a complete refurbishment and refit to their ‘sixties’ building due to wear and tear over the last 40 years.

Bullying is a long-standing problem in society, and none more worrisome than in schools. Millions of school children are affected by bullying and the question asked by parents is, “what are you doing to prevent it?”

Real-time demonstrations of its networked water management controllers and discussions on the development of its new anti-ligature proportional shower controls were hot topics on the Wallgate stand at the Design in Mental Health Exhibition.

Specifying products for washrooms, whatever sector it might be for, may seem like a fairly straightforward task, but there are a number of considerations that need to be taken into account if success is to be achieved.

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Wallgate will be demonstrating its healthcare sanitaryware range and unveiling new washroom products at the Design in Mental Health Show, Birmingham. New for 2017 are the latest shower controller and solid surface material developments.

Recently, the Secretary for the Department of Education said that if the bottom 75 per cent of schools became as efficient as the most cost effective 25 per cent then the education budget over the next few years wouldn’t be a problem.

With most school budgets seemingly always at breaking point, and as many as 72% of school leaders saying their budgets will be ‘unsustainable’ by 2019, the education sector needs to be doing everything it can to make the money go further. Added to that the expectations from government and parents for schools to maintain or raise their standards and provide a better, cleaner and more hygienic environment for the children to learn in, is understandably difficult for most. Phil Thorne, commercial manager at Wallgate provides some timely advice.

Wallgate’s commitment to staff training and health and safety was underlined last month when 13 members of the team took the City and Guild accredited programme on water hygiene in healthcare building water systems (ACoP, HSG274, HTM 04-01).

Attending for the second year in a row, Wallgate were again demonstrating their healthcare sanitary ware range and unveiling new products at the Design in Mental Health Exhibition, Birmingham, this time, introducing a specialist dementia-friendly range.

St Ilans School, Caerphilly has recently chosen Wallgate products for a £3.5m new build project. The construction of a new three-storey teaching block and entrance atrium was developed to meet the needs of staff and pupils aged 3-16 years.

Wallgate is proud to announce that the Thrii now meets the Australian SAA Electrical safety approval. This is another big step for Wallgate Australasia with the Thrii previously gaining Watermark™ approval.

Wallgate is well known in the UK for public washrooms so we are delighted to be chosen to supply our automatic hand wash units for a major project to create pubic washroom facilities throughout Moscow, RUSSIA.

Ceramic WC pans and basins used extensively throughout the prison estate suffer high rates of breakages with replacements sometimes difficult to obtain. With over 10 years experience supplying into UK prisons, Wallgate was contacted by NOMS to provide a solution to the problem.

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Anti-ligature

Recently we have become aware that there is some inconsistency in the market as to the exact meaning of “anti-ligature”. Where we use this phrase in connection with our products it means that we have designed and tested the product in order to reduce any risk of that product being used as a ligature attachment point.